Faculty/Staff
Sociology/Anthropology Directory Listing
Anna Curtis (she/her)
Title(s):
- Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
- Courses:: Sociology of Law; Criminological Theory; Crime and Inequality; Incarceration and the Family; Sterilization, Reproductive Technology and Abortion; Sociology of the Family; Juvenile Delinquency
Samantha E Applin
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
- Courses: White-Collar Crime; Global Criminology; Alternatives to Incarceration; Sociology of Deviant Behavior; Introduction to Sociology;
- Specializations: Comparative research, gender and violence
Miriam Barcus (she/her)
Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
- Specializations: Gender, Work and Family, Parental Leave, Social Inequality, Intersectionality
Marcus Bell
Title(s):
- Associate Professor/Diversity Faculty Fellow
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Elizabeth Bittel (they/them)
Title(s):
- Internship Coordinator
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
- Specializations: Environmental Sociology, Social Dimensions of Disasters and Hazards, Environmental Justice, Ethnographic Methods, Sri Lanka, Body Modification (Tattooing)
- Courses: Introduction to Sociology, Methods of Social Research I, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Justice, Social Dimensions of Disaster
- Affiliated Departments: International Studies, Africana Studies
Mary A. Cannito-Coville
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
- Specializations: Collateral consequences of mass incarceration, youth involvement in gangs, the school-to-prison pipeline.
- Courses: Sociology of policing, Corrections, Sociology of violence, and Crime & Inequality.
- Affiliated Departments: Africana Studies
Stephanie K Decker
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
- Specializations: Criminology, Social Control, Historical Sociology, Social Movements, Discourse and Narratives, Torture, Public Confessions
- Courses: Deviant Behavior, Social Control, Criminological Theory, Sociological Theory, Drugs and Society, and Organized Crime
María del Pilar File-Muriel (ella/she, her, hers )
Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
Kent M. Johnson
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
- Specializations: Biological anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Kinship, Dental Anthropology, Andean Archaeology
- Education: Ph.D., Arizona State University
- ORCid: 0000-0002-3933-6439
- Courses: Intro to Biological Anthropology, Intro to Forensic Anthropology, Archaeology of Death, Advanced Forensic Anthropology, Human Osteology
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Kassim Kone
Title(s):
- Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
Lily Liang
Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Dr. Tisa Loewen
Title(s):
- Visiting Instructor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
John-Michael McKee
Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
- Specializations: Race and Crime; Self-Defense; Gender and Crime; Threat Theory
- Courses: Methods of Social Research I & II; Juvenile Delinquency; Deviant Behavior; Crime and Inequality; Political Sociology; Criminology; Organizations and Bureaucracy; Sociology of Law
Hollis K Miller (she/her/hers)
Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- Native American Studies
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
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- Courses: Archaeological Principles; Native American Peoples, Cultures & Activisms; Historical Ecology; Archaeologies of North America
- Specializations: Archaeology, Community-based Research, Indigenous Histories in North America, Historical Ecology, Archaeology of Colonialism, Storytelling & Archaeological Writing Practice, Alaska
Kevin D Revier (he/him/his)
Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
- Specializations: Drug war and policy, addiction, critical race theory, media, social movement
- Courses: Introduction to Sociology, Global Criminology, Fear, Crime & Media, Drugs & Society
- Website: kevinrevier.com
Sharon R Steadman
Title(s):
- Distinguished Professor
Department(s):
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
- Specializations: : archaeological spatial analysis, archaeology of religion, ancient and modern Middle East and Turkey, ancient and modern India
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Tiantian Zheng
Title(s):
- SUNY Distinguished Professor
Department(s):
- Asian/Middle Eastern Studies
- Sociology/Anthropology Department
Additional Info:
- Personal Website
- Academia Profile
- Linkedin Profile
- Courses Taught: Peoples of East Asia, Medical Anthropology, Sociocultural Study of AIDS, Cross-Cultural Study of Global Violence, Cross-Cultural Study of Sex Crimes, Anthropological Theory, Anthropology Methods, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Gender, Anthropology Honors
- Research Interests: Recipient of four national book awards: 2010 Sara Whaley Book Award, 2011 Research Publication Book Award, 2022 Research Publication Book Award, and the _Choice_ award of “Outstanding Academic Title." on books about cultural politics of gender, social class, social inequalities, migration, and their role in the transmission of disease and identity formation of the disenfranchised and underprivileged population. More than two-decade intense, longitudinal fieldwork has resulted in eleven academic books, five edited journal issues, and over a hundred articles. Testified before the Congress at Capitol Hill, UNAIDS, and the United Nations on human trafficking and other issues, and has been a featured guest speaker on NPR, BBC, and NBC. Delivered over 100 invited talks at key national and international universities and organizations. Invited service on the reviewer panel for Wenner-Gren Foundation, National Science Foundation, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and Australia Research Council, and invited service on the Editorial Board for seven academic journals.